SELinux is preventing mpd from getattr access on the directory /root/.config.

What? Why does mpd want to access /root/.config? What’s MPD? It’s a daemon for playing music. It runs as a service, which I connect to with either ncmp or ncmpcpp. Here’s the full SETroubleshoot detail: The version of MPD that causes this issue is: 0.20.10 on Fedora 27. I’m pretty sure it was working last week and I didn’t have to do anything. So what’s changed? Well, it seems like this could be a very old problem as reported int bug 1325502....

March 2, 2018 · 2 min · 282 words · kenno